Breadboard Farm Table With A Twist (pic heavy)

[rtyler8140]

My wife and I have a small 2 bedroom home. We wanted to have a guest bedroom, but also wanted to be able to accommodate overnight guests. My wife came up with the idea, I just designed & built it.

Milling up the top


Routing the mortise for the breadboard


Cutting the tenon for the breadboard


Spraying Poly on the apron framework


Spraying Poly on the legs


Table all finished and assembled


Milling up the rails and stiles for the benches


Gluing up the benches


Gluing up the bench seats


Benches all ready for a trip to the spray booth


Benches complete


Bench top opens up for plenty of storage (put file hangers in the center)


Short legs installed to make table and bench height the same


Inflatable queen mattress on the table/bed


My wife's parents came down after Christmas and we were able to sit down to dinner, then later in the evening converted the table into a bed for them. Worked out great!

 

[bobleibo]

I really like the way you tied it all together, especially the stiles and rails benches that double as storage. Great idea.
I did a table like that for someone awhile back that needed to able to be adjusted like yours for a different reason (no benches) and thought it would be a hassle to have to change the entire legs so I ended up cutting the long ones in half and installing hinges and brass clasps like these. Happily it had very little effect on the stability of the table at full height and made it very easy to change them.
P.S.
That is one heck of a shop you have there......lots of room and one can never have too many clamps! I'm jealous

 

[Brian G]

In your face, Ikea! :wink:

Very nice design. You must hate having to work in such a tiny shop.

 

[rtyler8140]

I really like the way you tied it all together, especially the stiles and rails benches that double as storage. Great idea.
I did a table like that for someone awhile back that needed to able to be adjusted like yours for a different reason (no benches) and thought it would be a hassle to have to change the entire legs so I ended up cutting the long ones in half and installing hinges and brass clasps like these. Happily it had very little effect on the stability of the table at full height and made it very easy to change them.
P.S.
That is one heck of a shop you have there......lots of room and one can never have too many clamps! I'm jealous

I thought about doing something like that as well, but hopefully down the road we will use this as a dinning table in a dedicated room so we won't need to convert it all that often. It's nice to know that it didn't hurt the stability that much....that was a big reservation I had. As it stands, I used wing nuts so my wife and I can switch the legs out in about 10mins.